to be able to provide the complementary portion. Since this situation can lead, as it has in the past, only to mutual recriminations, I can only deprecate the impression you have given. The same of course applies to any combined procedure in which two or more specialties are involved.-I am, etc.,
Breach of this standard is ipso facto malpractice. Furthermore, responsibility for professional acts rests with the actUal treatihg physician and may not be trahsferted to leiployers, government programnmes, hospital officials or commnittees, chiefs of service, comftiiWs §onets, atid the like. We have no professional dMty to any such party; our obligatlon is solely t6 out patienits.
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